The national story about salmonella being found in millions and millions of eggs never quite got the widespread attention it probably deserved, since the entire country was too busy fighting over the “Ground Zero Mosque”, but it’s not quite gone yet. Last week the Boston Globe ran a story that, frankly, I had been expecting to see long ago in the development of the entire crisis, linking Maine egg-and-poultry producer Jack DeCoster to the egg farms in Iowa where the outbreaks occurred. Anybody who lives or grew up in my little corner of Central Maine knows about DeCoster and his always-less-than-aboveboard business practices (detailed at length in this post at The Atlantic.com), and when the salmonella scare first broke my own immediate expectation was that it would involve his operations. The Globe story tries to explain the tangled web of business connections that have been used to thoroughly obfuscate the exact nature and extent of the involvement, but sometimes all you need is the whiff of sulphur to know there’s a rotten egg.
This Serious Eats post talks about the food safety bill that is presently lingering in the Senate thanks to the Just-Say-No Party, and an addendum from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) that would push the onus of product recall onto food retailers, that is in direct response to this salmonella outbreak
